[Quote No.41020] Need Area: Friends > General "The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men [and women] to conceive sound social and economic theories [i.e. capitalist free market democracies that uphold basic human rights], and the ability of these or other men [and women, i.e. politicians, intellectuals, business and spiritual leaders, etc] to make these ideologies palatable to the majority." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41021] Need Area: Friends > General "[The freedom of the media is vital to provide, in an unbiased way, the facts that voters in democracies use to apportion power. This is known by political powers and therefore the constant danger that this freedom will be undermined by public relations ‘spin doctors’, crony capitalism and subtle behind-the-scenes pressure. The media, politicians of integrity and freedom loving citizens must resist this distortion of the structure of functioning democracies.] No ruler who lacks the gift of persuasion can stay in office long; it is the indispensable condition of government. It would be an idle illusion to assume that any government, no matter how good, could lastingly do without public consent... In the long run no government can maintain itself in power if it does not have public opinion behind it, i.e., if those governed are not convinced that the government is good... History provides an abundance of striking examples to show that, in the long run, even the most ruthless policy of repression does not suffice to maintain a government in power... Only a group that can count on the consent of the governed can establish a lasting regime... In the long run there cannot be any such thing as an unpopular system of government... The supremacy of public opinion determines...the whole process of human history." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41023] Need Area: Friends > General "The masses...choose between the ideologies developed by the intellectual leaders of mankind. But their choice is final and determines the course of events. If they prefer bad doctrines, nothing can prevent disaster [except the effort to explain the reasons for and against the bad and good doctrines in the hope of changing public opinion]." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41030] Need Area: Friends > General "In the etatist state [statist, big, paternal government] entrepreneurs are at the mercy of officialdom. Officials enjoy discretion to decide questions on which the existence of every firm depends. They are practically free to ruin any entrepreneur they want to. They had the power not only to silence these objectors but even to force them to contribute to the party funds of nationalism. [In such circumstances the imperative of survival tempts companies to enter into 'special' arrangements with the government which amount to crony capitalism, effectively destroying democracy and the equality and freedom of all individuals and companies.] " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41034] Need Area: Friends > General "The majority [whether in a democracy or not] has the power to do away with an unpopular government and uses this power whenever it becomes convinced that its own welfare requires it. In the long run there is no such thing as an unpopular government. Civil war and revolution are the means by which the discontented majorities overthrow rulers and methods of government which do not suit them... Though a tyrant may temporarily rule through a minority if this minority is armed and the majority is not, in the long run a minority cannot keep the majority in subservience. The oppressed will rise in rebellion and cast off the yoke of tyranny." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41038] Need Area: Friends > General "The State [national government] is the only institution entitled to apply [force:-] coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals... [Therefore] It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws... [which] assigns to the citizens a sphere in which they are free to act without being frustrated by government interference [or interference by other people]." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41039] Need Area: Friends > General "The alternative to the rule of [human rights and democratically determined] law is the rule of despots... It is the rule of law alone which hinders the [political] rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters... Classical liberalism regarded those laws best that afforded the least discretionary power to executive authorities, thus avoiding arbitrariness and abuse... It is the social function of the laws to [also] curb the arbitrariness of the police. The rule of law restricts the arbitrariness of the officers as much as possible." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41044] Need Area: Friends > General "Despots and democratic majorities are [easily made] drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41045] Need Area: Friends > General "[Classical] Liberalism knows no conquests, no annexations; just as it is indifferent towards the state itself, so the problem of the size of the state is unimportant to it. It forces no one against his will into the structure of the state. Whoever wants to emigrate is not held back. When a part of the people of the state wants to drop out of the union, liberalism does not hinder it from doing so. Colonies that want to become independent need only do so... No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want... The right of self-determination in regard to the question of membership in a state thus means: whenever the inhabitants of a particular territory, whether it be a single village, a whole district, or a series of adjacent districts, make it known, by a freely conducted plebiscite, that they no longer wish to remain united to the state to which they belong at the time, but wish either to form an independent state or to attach themselves to some other state, their wishes are to be respected and complied with. This is the only feasible and effective way of preventing revolutions and civil and international wars." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41047] Need Area: Friends > General "This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen, and this is what freedom means, is in a position to choose his own way of life [within the limits of his resources of time, energy, ability, money, etc., and the equal rights of others]." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41052] Need Area: Friends > General "To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers [not intellectuals, politicians, soldiers, etc]. Their buying and abstention from buying [of the service each person provides] is instrumental in determining each individual’s [contribution to society and therefore to a large degree their wealth and] social position." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41054] Need Area: Friends > General "All this passionate praise of the super-eminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the [politicians and] individual interventionists self-deification. The great god State [big, paternal government] is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of interventionism wants to see achieved... Whether they call themselves Marxian or non-Marxian socialists, technocrats, or simply planners, they are all eager to show how foolishly things are arranged in reality and how happily men could live if they were to invest the reformers with dictatorial powers... The...dictator...wants to deprive all other people of the [right, freedom and] power to plan and act according to their own plans [so long as they do not hurt, defraud or force anyone else]. He [or she] aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute pre-eminence of his [or her] own plan... If a man says socialism...he always has in view his own brand of socialism, his own plan. Thus planning does not in fact mean preparedness to cooperate peacefully. It means ['slavery' and] conflict." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41058] Need Area: Friends > General "Socialism...is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created. " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].
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[Quote No.41067] Need Area: Friends > General "Mankind has not reached the stage of ultimate technological perfection. There is ample room for further progress and for further improvement of the standards of living. The creative and inventive spirit subsists notwithstanding all assertions to the contrary. But it flourishes only where there is economic freedom. [Theoretically and historically, big, paternalistic government, which interferes in free markets, makes Joseph Schumpeter's 'creative destruction' less possible and therefore makes innovation less able to rise to better meet the needs of the public. This is yet one more argument against big, paternalistic government in any of its recent forms including communism, socialism, state capitalism, crony capitalism, facsism and dictatorship.]" - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41068] Need Area: Friends > General "We see that as soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching of the individual’s mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest detail. The personal freedom of the individual is abrogated. He becomes a slave of the community bound to obey the dictates of the majority [regardless of individual rights]." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].
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[Quote No.41069] Need Area: Friends > General "The state is a human institution, not a superhuman being. He who says: state, means: coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like [even if it hurts no-one else]. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: the police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].
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[Quote No.41071] Need Area: Friends > General "It is characteristic of current political thinking to welcome every suggestion which aims at enlarging the influence of government... A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state... The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments...The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference [and therefore a bigger, paternalistic government] are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].
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[Quote No.41072] Need Area: Friends > General "Many people look upon tariff protection as if it were a privilege accorded to their nation’s wage earners, procuring them, for the full duration of its existence, a higher standard of living than they would enjoy under free trade... All that a tariff can achieve is to divert production from those locations in which the output per unit of input is higher to locations in which it is lower. It does not increase production; it curtails it... The imposition of a duty on the importation of a commodity burdens the consumers [so the benefits to the nation’s wage earners is actually at the expense of the nation’s consumers, rather than from other nations. In fact historical economic analysis of tariff protection has shown that the net effect is a general deterioration of the nation’s standard of living. Refer Theory of National Competitive Advantage.]" - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41077] Need Area: Friends > General "A free man must be able to endure [tolerate, accept] it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper [so long as they are not ‘hurting’ him or his ‘rights’ or those of others]. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police [or for a politician to change the law to support his way of thinking]." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].
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[Quote No.41079] Need Area: Friends > General "Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable [fiscal, tax and monetary] measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41080] Need Area: Friends > General "In the hegemonic state [statism, communism, socialism, fascism, etc] there is neither right [human rights] nor law; there are only directives and regulations which the director may change daily and apply with what discrimination he pleases which the wards must obey. The wards have one freedom only: to obey without asking questions... The substitution of economic planning for the [free] market economy removes all freedom and leaves to the individual merely the right to obey... A man is free as far as he shapes his life according to his own plans. A man whose fate is determined by the plans of a superior authority, in which the exclusive power to plan is vested, is not free in the sense in which the term free was used and understood by all people until the semantic revolution of our day brought about a confusion of tongues... It [political tyranny] is the subordination of every individual’s whole life, work, and leisure, to the orders of those in [political] power and office. It is the reduction of man to a cog in an all-embracing machine of compulsion and coercion. It forces the individual to renounce any activity of which the government does not approve. It tolerates no expression of dissent. It is the transformation of society into a strictly disciplined labor-army... It holds the individual in tight rein from the womb to the tomb. " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41082] Need Area: Friends > General "Government ['stimulus'] spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other... It is obviously futile to attempt to eliminate unemployment by embarking upon a program of public works that would otherwise not have been undertaken [especially if their business case, that is their productivity improvement or return on investment is not satisfactory]. The necessary resources for such projects must be withdrawn by taxes or loans from the application they would otherwise have found [refer the phenomenon of 'crowding out']. Unemployment in one industry can, in this way, be mitigated only to the extent that it is increased in another. [If government, rather than borrowing, prints money - thereby abandoning a sound money policy - then it increases inflation, now or later, and while perhaps nominally improving GDP, the real purchasing power is reduced, now or later, by the same amount so the standard of living is not helped overall, in particular borrowers are helped out but only at the expense of savers. It is another example of discriminatory government intervention, which takes from one unfavoured political group and gives to another favoured political group. As the famous Nobel Prize winning economist, Milton Friedman said, 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.' To believe otherwise is political and economic sophistry.]" - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41086] Need Area: Friends > General "Permanent, mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited. " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41095] Need Area: Friends > General "Modern war is not a war of royal armies. It is a war of the peoples, a total war. It is a war of states which do not leave to their subjects any private sphere; they consider the whole population a part of the armed forces. Whoever does not fight must work for the support and equipment of the army. Army and people are one and the same. The citizens passionately participate in the war... What has transformed the limited war between royal armies into total war, the clash between peoples, is not technicalities of military art, but the substitution of the welfare state [statism - where the state owns everyone and no-one is free to choose for themselves] for the laissez-faire state [capitalism - where people own themselves and everyone is free to choose for themselves]. " - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41096] Need Area: Friends > General "All the materials needed for the conduct of a war must be provided by restriction of civilian consumption, by using up a part of the capital available and by working harder. The whole burden of warring falls upon the living generation [and their descendants who must pay for the borrowings that made up the government deficit spending on the war]... At the breakfast table of every citizen sits in wartime an invisible guest, as it were, a G.I. who shares the meal. In the citizens garage stays not only the family car but besides invisibly a tank or a plane. The important fact is that this G.I. needs more in food, clothing, and other things than he used to consume as a civilian and that military equipment wears out much quicker than civilian equipment. The [financial, let alone the human] costs of a modern war are enormous." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41097] Need Area: Friends > General "Men [and women in war] are fighting one another [killing, dying, being disabled and psychologically scarred] because they are convinced [often wrongly, even deliberately deceptively by their political elites] that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own [and their loved ones'] well-being." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41106] Need Area: Friends > General "If you want to abolish war [and have peace], you must eliminate its causes. What is needed is to restrict government activities to the preservation of [facts, freedom] life, health, and private property, and thereby to safeguard the working of the [free] market. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting [fraud, force] harm [or theft] on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner." - Ludwig von Mises[1881 – 1973], an Austrian-American economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern free-market libertarian movement and the Austrian School of economics. Refer the website [ mises.org ].Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.41131] Need Area: Friends > General "I hate to use the terms 'right' and 'left'; they're so ill-defined that they've become meaningless. Anyway, they're basically two sides of the same coin; both right and left are collectivists and statists. The left says they believe in social freedom, but that's a lie; and they definitely hate economic freedom, while the right says they believe in economic freedom, which is also a lie; but they definitely hate social freedom. Only the libertarians and classical liberals consistently promote both social and economic freedom, and therefore work to liberate the best and noblest aspects of the human spirit." - Doug CaseyCaseyresearch.com - Thursday, 19th April, 2012.Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image